WOMAN AND THE TELEPHONE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1747, 14 August 1917, Page 4

WOMAN AND THE TELEPHONE.

In a criticism on the business woman a writer in an exchange ventures to suggest that, however capable she may be, she has one vulnerable spot —her weakness for tkc telephone. “Can you tell me the secret,” ho asks, “of the telephone’s fascination for women? A man, if he has to talk on the wire, says what he has to say, and hangs up the receiver quickly. Not so a woman. However excellent her business capacities' in oilier respects, she is unable to resist the lure of the telephone. Hho will go on handing out any old drivel so long ns she can induce the person at the oilier end to listen to her. And if no business calls come through to satisfy her craving, she will ring up all he) 1 friends and relations, and indulge in tong and intimate (dial s a hunt Lizzie’s new baby, or Amy's new tint, or (lie show she went to with Caplain Dash last night, regardless of the feelings of frenzied subscribers who are being Honied meanwhile with the parrot cry, ‘Number engaged!” As for a public call-box, if you see a woman in one, you may as well go home and have a nice, long sleep. You’ll waste your time waiting.”